Sewing-machine-attachment drawer.



No. 716,004. Patented Dec. I6, |902.

P. DIEHL. SEWING MACHINE ATTACHMENT DRAWER.

(Application Bled Har. 31, 1902.)

(No Model.)

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qNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE- PHILIP DIEHL, OF ELIZABETH, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO THE SINGER MANUFACTURING COMPANY, A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

SEWING-MACHINE-ATTACHNIENT DRAWER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 716,004, dated December 16, 1902.

Application led March 31, 1902. Serial No. 100,773. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, PHILIP DIEHL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Elizabeth, inthe county of Union and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Sewing-Machine-Attachment Drawers, of which thefollowing is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings. y

This invention has for itsobject to provide a compartment-receptacle for sewing-machine attachments, which receptacle is made in the form of a drawer for asewing-machine stand or table, preferably the shallow middle drawer of a sewing-machine stand or table. The attachments to be contained in the receptacle are of -various shapes and sizes, and, in order that a receptacle in which these attachments of various shapes andsizes will properly t, it is necessary that the variousV compartments to contain the same should each be approximately of ashape and size of the article to be placed therein. Furthermore, it is desirable that the attachment-receptacle should be produced cheaply.

In carrying my invention into effect I form comparatively shallow compartments or recesses in one face of a wooden block by subjecting the block to pressure under a die having relief or projecting portions of the shapes and sizes of the various comparatively shallow compartments or indentations to be formed, and I form relatively deep compartments by cutting away parts of the edges'of the block and then inclosing the cut-away parts or edges by sides forminga part of the drawer in which ,the compartment-block is placed and of which it forms a part, the drawer being provided with a bottom and with suitable guiding-slides to fit in the sewing-machine stand or table after the compartment-block has been suitably secured in the drawer of which it forms a part, the exposed inner surfaces of the drawer being preferably covered by a fibrous flock attached to said surfaces by a coating of a suitable adhesive applied in liquid form and to which adhesive coating when the latter is partly dry the flock is applied.

In the accompanyingdrawings, Figure 1 is a plan view of a compartment-drawer constructed in accordance with the invention and filled with a set of sewing-machine attachments; and Fig. 2 is a cross-section of the same on the same on line 2 2, Fig. 1, with the attachments omitted.

Referring to the drawings, lldenotes a block, preferably of soft wood, and in the upper face of which relatively shallow compartments 12 are formed, preferably by subj ecting the block to pressure under a die having relief or proj ecting portions of the shapes and sizes of the various shallow compartments or indentations to be formed. Each of these various relatively shallow compartments l2 is of approximately the shape or size of the relatively thin sewing-machine atment 13 to be placed therein, while for providing receptacles for the larger or thicker attachments 14 the block is cut away at portions of its edges to form relatively deep compartments 15. The drawer is provided with the front face 16 and with a rear side portion 17, each extending as a projecting ledge above the upper unindented surface of the block 11 and also extending around therelatively deep compartment or compartments 15 to form an inclosing side or boundary for the latter. The drawer is also provided with guiding-slides 18, which will steady the attachmentdrawer in` the sewingmachine stand or table, the said slides 18 forming practically the ends of the drawer and extending, as ledges, above the upper unindented fac of the block 11 at the ends thereof.

When the attachment-drawer, with its various shallow and deep compartments, has been constructed in the manner indicated and hasbeen provided with a bottom 20, beneath the block 1l, a suitable finish is given to the exposed inner surfaces of the drawer by first covering such surfaces with a suitable liquid adhesive material (preferably a thin varnish) and then when such adhesive material is partly dried applying a fibrous fiock thereto. When the adhesive material is fully dried, the loose or unattached flock is brushed oif, leaving a Hock-covered surface or coating 19, which presents the appearance of felt or cloth and gives the effect of a felt or cloth lining.

Having thus described my invention, I

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claim and desire to secure by Letters Patentl. The herein-described sewing-machineattachment drawer, consisting of a block provided in its upper face with relatively shallow compartments, and having portions of its edges cut away or omitted to form one or more relatively deep compartments at the edge or edges of said block, a front face and a rear side portion for said drawer between which said block is fitted, and which rear side portion partly forms the said deep compartment or compartments, and backwardly-projeeting slides forming the ends of the drawer; said front face, rear side portion and end slides projecting abovethe upper unindented face of the said block, to form an inclosing receptacle.

In testimony whereof I aix my signature 3o in presence of two witnesses.

PHILIP DIEHL.

Witnesses:

JOSEPH F. JAQUITH, HENRY A. KORNEMANN. 

